Got a prompt :-))) . The catch was in inittab: we at last saw LinuxBIOS reacting to user mode - renaming init caused it to look for it instead of freezing when running it , thanks Brian - and so it boiled down to getting correct serial settings in the inittab. I suspect some kind of process respawning to be behind the reset after the system "froze". Probably also the exclusive serial kernel setting helped save the day.
Thanks to everybody for the great feedback.
Eli
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 4:55 PM
To: Elias Rajczyk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: no return from init
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Elias Rajczyk wrote:
>
> well, before enabling vga support in the kernel we did get "unable to get
> initial console" and freeze. Right now we do have all vga support in the
> kernel, but we do not get response on the vga.
no, turn off kernel vga support. Enable ONLY serial console support.
Try that.
ron
